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A 5 page research paper on the importance of teaching students strategies that will enable their success at taking tests. The writer offers an introduction to the topic, literature review and conclusions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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For example, a student who is being tested on multiplication might be confronted with the problem of "What is 5,131,613 x 6,246" and 4 multiple choice answers. One student might
take a full minute (or more) and perform the entire calculation, while a "test-taking pro" will observe that because the right-hand operands are 3 and 6, the right hand digit
of the correct answer has to be 8. Since only one of the given multiple choice answers has a right-hand digit of 8 that has to be the correct
answer. This answer can be discerned in only a few seconds, allowing the student more time to answer other questions (Latham, 2004). The skill involved here is "to look at
the answers first and then do just enough work to eliminate the wrong answers" (Latham, 2004), p. 23). In todays educational climate of high-stakes testing, teaching test-taking skills
is topic that should be addressed early in the educational process. This is because success at tests is not simply a matter of a student knowing the material and having
the skills to take a required test, but it also involves the student having the confidence to do well and test-taking skills offer that confidence, especially in timed-tests, which exert
considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investigate test-preparation and test-taking strategies that high school students use
in algebra tests. Drawing from a sample pool of 156 students, the researchers conducted interviews with 61 students. While high-achievers and low-achievers used some of the same strategies, the strategies
between these two groups also differed. Strategies, such as: anticipating the answer to the question before reading the alternatives, eliminating incorrect alternatives, skipping and later returning to difficult questions, and
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